Silas Hale, the youngest billionaire and CEO of Hale Inc., has transformed his bleak childhood memories into a global empire of innovative, welcoming hotels. Known for his ruthless perfectionism, Silas's life changes when he hires Vivienne Onaïs as...
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"I'm not going to do this show to finally marry someone I will not like in the end." Silas told us, after crossing out the whole purpose of the show.
I finally scheduled an official meeting between Julian and Silas. Silas had technically agreed to Julian's idea but there were a few things he didn't agree with that we had to go over...which was nearly everything. These two have been going back and forth for the past hour now. I had resorted to doodling flowers in my notebook, only half listening.
"Why not? That was the fun part!" Julian exclaimed, throwing his hands in the air. "You've basically said no to everything I have said. Did you hear the benefits I told you the other day?"
"Give me another idea." Silas groaned out. Feeling his gaze on me, I swiftly looked up from my doodles, acting like I had been focusing on the meeting that had become useless a long time ago. I saw his eyes flicker down but I cleared my throat and tried to indifferently cover the book with my hands.
"Do you have an idea, Vivienne?"
Improvise, Vivi. Talk your way out.
"Of course, I do!" I chriped, quickly closing my notebook and switching my attention to the two men who were now both staring at me with intensity. Well, Silas was at least. Julian, on the other hand, pleaded me to agree with his original idea with his puppy eyes.
"So, the love thing is obviously the part that is withholding you from saying fully yes. But taking out the love aspect will ruin the whole point of the show right? So how about instead of forcing you to fake falling in love, we can give you the opportunity to fall in love by giving you potential love interests?—" Silas' eyebrows furrowed immediately and I quickly held my hands up as if to stop the thoughts that were already rejecting the idea.
"Here me out, Silas, please. We will not tell you to follow any script or anything like that. Just be yourself. Everyone who accepts to be on the show already knows who you are and expects you to be this heartless person. But if they have the opportunity to talk with you and see that you're just a tad bit better than their expectations, they'll start to understand you and see that you're honestly just a grumpy ass person. Plus, we can make it reality show-like and make the candidates talk about how the date went to the camera otherwise known as the audience. Done deal."
"That....is better." Silas admitted with reluctance. That was a win in my books.
"The name should be taming Silas Hale: mission impossible." Julian suggested and I snorted immediately.
"Corny. Very bad." Silas sent him a glare.
"Go big or go home." I joined Julian in convincing him.
"I would rather go home."
Withholding my loud laugh, both Julian and I pressed our hands together and pouted.
Silas looked repulsed. "Fine. Just stop looking at me. Both of you."
